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Willie Walker and The Butanes

Willie Walker and The Butanes


* 23.12.1941; † 19.11.2019

Willie Earl Walker (December 23, 1941  – November 19, 2019), also known as Wee Willie Walker, was an American soul and blues singer.

He was born in Hernando, Mississippi, and grew up in Memphis, Tennessee, where he started singing with local gospel groups. From his mid-teens, he toured with the Redemption Harmonizers, who included Roosevelt Jamison. In 1960, while touring, Walker and a bandmate decided to stay in Minneapolis with a member of another gospel group, the Royal Jubileers, rather than returning to Memphis. In Minneapolis, he joined a local R&B vocal group, the Val-Dons (later Valdons), who became successful in and around Minneapolis–Saint Paul.

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